student computing club 2011-2012
The biostatistics student computing club gives biostatistics students of all levels the opportunity
to develop computing skills useful for statisticians. We offer one-hour sessions approximately
every two weeks on topics in computing, hosted by faculty members and senior students in the
department. These sessions will take place every other Thursday from 12:00-1:15,
alternating weeks with the student journal club.
The tentative schedule for the year is below. This will be updated periodically
as topics and speakers are firmed up. As always, suggestions for topics are welcome,
so please send us your ideas!
Contact me (Alyssa Frazee) with questions or ideas, or if you aren't on the biostat listserv but would like to receive computing club emails.
schedule:
august 31, 2011 (wednesday)
time: 12-12:50pm
room: W3031
topic: general computing tips (geared toward new students, but all welcome)
speaker: students
food: bring your own lunch, but we'll provide dessert!
september 8, 2011 (first official meeting)
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W2017
topic: introduction to the cluster and department computing
speaker: Marvin Newhouse
food: lunch provided
september 22, 2011
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W2017
topic: becoming an R wizard
speaker: Roger Peng
food: lunch provided
october 7, 2011 (friday)
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W3031
topic: UNIX/shell scripting
speaker: Ben Langmead
food: lunch provided
october 27, 2011
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W2017
topic: what can Google do for you?
speaker: Hilary Parker
food: lunch provided
november 10, 2011
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W2015
topic: how to LaTeX like a pro
speaker: Jon Gellar
food: lunch provided
december 8, 2011
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W2015
topic: Sweave
speaker: Roger Peng
food: lunch provided
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february 9, 2012
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W4013
topic: Beamer and the tikz package
Click to download Jenna's slides and code
speaker: Jenna Krall
food: lunch provided
february 23, 2012
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W4013
topic: R package ggplot2
Here's a good point and click interface
Eitan's slides
speaker: Eitan Halper-Stromberg
food: lunch provided
april 5, 2012
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W4013
topic: Parallel computing in R
speaker: Andrew Jaffe
Download Andrew's slides
food: lunch provided
april 19, 2012
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W4013
topic: Q&A
speaker: crowdsourced
food: lunch provided
may 3, 2012
time: 12-1:15pm
room: W4013
topic: website creation
speaker: Alyssa Frazee
food: lunch provided
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